File Types and Programs

[Jeff Vian]

On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 20:28 -0500, David Curry wrote:
> Steve Fink wrote:
> 
> >Anyone,
> >
> >I've been trying to set the default icon for certain files like .doc
> >files or .rtf and such.
> >
> >I remember using the File Types and Programs utility to do it before,
> >now I can't find any reference to this in Fedora Core 3.  Did something
> >else take it's place?
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> >
> >Best,
> >
> >Steve
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> Steve, I don't know about FC3 but in FC2 one can set the default icon 
> for file types as follows.
> 
> Red Hat icon --> Preferences --> File types and programs -->  "highlight 
> file class" --> "highlight subclass" --> edit --> icon
> 
> This was a by product of explorations earlier today while trying to 
> figure how to use the desktop icon placed on my desktop by the TurboTax 
> installation program I ran under wine.
> 
David,

I have been wanting to try turbotax on my Linux box.
How did the install go? and does it work?

You can send me a how-to offline if you want.

> Hope this helps.
>